Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 70

• How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Independence, Bidding

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.300, Vintage

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• We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Waiting, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.79, Vintage

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• All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, Helping

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.227, Oxford University Press

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• Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Assumption

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.176, Courier Corporation

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• We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Untouchability, Graves, Curse

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Marriage, Hatred

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• Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Stress

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• The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sake, Causes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Our World, Peaceful

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• It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wall, Writing, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• Democracy and violence can ill go together.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Democracy, Together

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.149, Hackett Publishing

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• The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

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• If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Giving, Tongue

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.66, A&C Black

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• You can't lead a true life without suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi

  True Life, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “A Day Book of Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi”

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• We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Compassion, Able, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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• My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Opportunity, Democracy

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• There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Believe, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.111, Grove Press

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• The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Freedom, Democracy

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• It is my conviction that nothing enduring
  can be built on violence.
  The only safe way to overcome an enemy
  is to make of that enemy a friend.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Enemy, Overcoming

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• If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Expression, Long

  Statement during trial, March 18, 1922.

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• So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Science, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  House, Ego, Meals

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• Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Helping, Celibacy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Belief, Cowardice

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• If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Care, Today

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi (1961). “Truth Called Them Differently: (Tagore-Gandhi Controversy)”

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